Contra Costa County Biography
LUDWIG ANDERSON
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
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a lumberman of Martinez, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 26, 1825, and
at the age of sixteen years he became a mariner, and at the end of six years of
seafaring life he found himself in New York city, whence he came to Callao and
Lima, in Peru, in 1849. In the latter part of this year he sailed on the barque
Ellitta and arrived in San Francisco in August, 1850. During the same year he
made the round trip to Panama on the steamer Oregon, which brought the first
tidings to the coast that California had been admitted into the Union. He then
followed the coasting trade until 1860, and finally, having learned that Captain
Anderson of the excellence of the Contra Costa region, he determined to locate
at Pacheco, which was then flourishing. At that place he opened a lumber yard,
which he still conducts with satisfactory success; and he has branched out into
Martinez in his extending business. By an unflinching integrity and indomitable
perseverance he has acquired considerable possessions in different portions of
the county.
He was married in San Francisco November 23, 1858, to Miss Honora Troy, a native
of Ireland, and has seven children living: Marie C., Louis D., Nora A., Mary M.,
Annie N., Jence J. and Elizabeth T.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing
Co., 1891